This would be a mistake, for unless consumers see fluctuations in prices (especially at peak times), they have no incentive to conserve power or shift their use off-peak.
She argues that these results were not caused by the low-power volunteers being less motivated, as they had the same financial incentive as the high-power volunteers to do well.
At the moment there is no money and little incentive to build new power stations.
This relieves demand during peak usage periods by giving customers an economic incentive to use less power.
Some see more potential for badges in K-12 education than at colleges, as an incentive similar to the frequent "power-ups" and accolades that videogames offer.
But it's often easier for a small school to use 100% green power, and the more renewable-energy credits purchased, the more power companies have an incentive to invest in clean fuel technologies.
Give CEOs more power, permission, and incentive to reinvest in the U.S., even if they earn a lower short-term return.
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The green credit support scheme will give an additional tier of financial incentive to firms seeking to harness marine power.
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Distributed energy aims to decouple profits and consumption so that power companies have a greater incentive to invest in energy-efficiency technologies that drive distributed-energy networks.
For example, the first phase of the EU Emissions Trading program, which contained several design flaws that have since been rectified, has already been found to have reduced emissions by around 100 million tonnes of CO2 mostly by forcing a shift of load from coal to gas power plants and providing an incentive for inefficient coal plants to improve the thermal efficiency of their boilers.
Many provinces are suffering power shortages because producers have little incentive to generate electricity given the high cost of coal and the low state-mandated electricity price.
And certainly as we get into a longer legislative debate on climate change, just in my conversations with the CEO, he talked about the notion of if you actually price greenhouse gas emissions into the production of power, you have a powerful incentive to find clean energy alternatives.
For example, the New York State Public Service Commission includes customers who agree to switch from grid-provided electricity to power provided from onsite generation to receive incentive payments under most DSM programs.
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Opponents (never mind ordinary Indonesians) had little power to make demands, neighbors had little incentive and world leaders little interest.
With them Congress has given taxpayers an incentive to file honest gift tax returns and the IRS new power if they don't.
This is a big year for lobbying, and natural gas producers could indeed benefit from a cap-and-trade bill because it would create an incentive to rely less on electricity generated by traditional coal-fired power plants.
"Instantly, automakers, coal companies, power plants and every other enterprise in America would have an incentive to reduce carbon emissions, because when they go under those limits, they can sell the balance of permitted emissions for cash, " McCain said.
The manufacturer has an incentive to agree to an arrangement where someone pays him money not to use power when electricity prices are high.
In addition, in areas where temporary monopsony power arose and generated rents for employers it would provide firms with the incentive to locate there and bid up the below market wages until they reached the competitive level.
With a key federal tax incentive about to expire, the U.S. installed a 5.5 gigawatts of wind power in December to cap off a year that saw a record 13.2 gigawatts of wind energy come online, according to a report released Friday by research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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This week, Emanuel introduced an incentive program that will encourage private and public truck fleets to move away from diesel fuel in favor of electric power.
Opposition parties support reforms in principle, but have little incentive to make life easy for a president whose party opposed those self-same reforms when they were in power.
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